South Bank
The South Bank is on a sharp 90° bend of the Thames in central London and one of the city's cultural centres. It is a small area but it contains many artistic and creative sites, as well as an eclectic range of other attractions, boutique shopping and trendy food and drink places.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Leicester Square and London Eye.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
London Eye
Ferris wheel
Photo: Khamtran, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The London Eye, originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually.
Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covent Garden and Holborn-Clerkenwell.
Covent Garden
Photo: Hamster28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
Holborn-Clerkenwell
Photo: Matthew Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holborn-Clerkenwell is a district in central London that is in many ways a buffer zone between London's West End and the City of London financial district.
Soho
Photo: garryknight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Soho is a district of central London, part of the West End, famous for jazz, its gay village, sex shops and alternative lifestyles.
South Bank
- Type: Quarter
- Description: district of London
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Lambeth, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50653° or 51° 30′ 24″ northLongitude
-0.11342° or 0° 6′ 48″ westElevation
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
9C3XGV4P+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 450524790OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“South Bank” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الضفة الجنوبية”
- Catalan: “South Bank”
- Chinese: “伦敦/南岸”
- Chinese: “南岸 (倫敦)”
- Chinese: “南岸”
- Czech: “Jižní nábřeží”
- Dutch: “South Bank”
- French: “South Bank”
- German: “South Bank”
- Hebrew: “סאות‘ בנק”
- Hebrew: “סאות’ בנק”
- Hebrew: “סאות’בנק”
- Indonesian: “South Bank”
- Italian: “South Bank”
- Japanese: “サウス・バンク”
- Korean: “사우스뱅크”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Bank”
- Norwegian: “South Bank”
- Persian: “ساوت بانک”
- Portuguese: “Borough de South Bank”
- Portuguese: “Londres/South Bank”
- Portuguese: “South Bank”
- Russian: “Саут Бэнк”
- Russian: “Саут-Банк”
- Russian: “Саут-Бэнк”
- Sicilian: “South Bank”
- Slovak: “South Bank”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساوت بانک”
- Spanish: “South Bank”
- Swedish: “South Bank”
- Turkish: “South Bank”
- Ukrainian: “Саут-Банк”
- Urdu: “ساوتھ بینک، لندن”
- Urdu: “ساوتھبینک، لندن”
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